[OSGeo-Alberta] notes on meeting #2, addition to agenda of meeting #4.

[Stefan Steiniger]

Hei Derek and others,

sounds good to me if you can give such a talk. We will keep that in mind 
for meeting in about 2 months.

On the email list.. I just changed the settings of the list, so the 
subscribers list is now visible/accessible to all members of the list:

http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/alberta

that should do the trick

have a good weekend
stefan

Weber, Derek wrote:
> Stefan...
> 
> I would like to volunteer a short presentation for the meeting after the
> next.
> 
> We created a series of population statistics maps for re-distributing /
> calculating estimated populations per electoral district subdivision in
> different arrangements, from various statscan and municipal census
> datasets .  It was done in PostGreSQL/PostGIS and was written entirely
> in SQL (with PostGIS functions).  QGIS was used as a viewer.
> 
> (If anybody is interested.)
> 
> Also, we should come up with an email address list to go along with the
> member list, so that I don't have to send emails like this to the entire
> group.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
> Derek Weber.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: alberta-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
> [mailto:alberta-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Stefan Steiniger
> Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2010 12:35 PM
> To: alberta at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: [OSGeo-Alberta] notes on meeting #2
> 
> Hei all,
> 
> last Friday, about 8 people made it to the second meeting.
> wayside
> i) First I talked for about an hour on state of FOS desktop GIS. I 
> re-presented actually a talk from 2009 at the OGRS conference. A copy of
> 
> those slides is available here:
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/jump-pilot/files/w_other_freegis_docume
> nts/presentations/sstein_FOS_Desktop_GIS_Projects_and_Software_an_analys
> is_ogrs2009.pdf/download
> 
> ii) Then we discussed how we continue with the groups objectives. We 
> looked for instance on the Mission Statements of the OSGeo Chapters of 
> BC, Quebec and Ontario (see the http://wiki.osgeo.org). We agreed here 
> that we keep working on a mission statement - but will probably wait 2-3
> 
> more meetings until we figured what each of us does and is interested 
> in. However we already identified three main points of interest:
> * Alberta geodata
> * free GIS tools in Oil & Gas & Energy
> * GIS software n general
> 
> iii) We also agreed that it may be useful to setup a member list. I 
> created a new wiki page for that:
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Alberta_Members
> 
> If you want to be on the list, then you either need to create an 
> account/login to be able to edit the wiki, or you send me an email and I
> 
> add you to that list.
> 
> iv) We then discussed how we continue with the meetings:
> - we found that it may be best to have a fix date. We decided that we 
> should have meetings *every 1st Tuesday of each month*.
> - hence, the next meeting should be on July 6th, 2010
> - for the next meeting will probably have (i.e. to be confirmed):
> -- a demo of AutoDesks MapGuide Open Source by Trevor Wekel (OTX 
> Systems) - a web map server software
> -- a presentation on the HEAT project by Chris Kyle (UofC and CDK) - a 
> web mapping system to check out the heat loss of your home
> 
> Finally, an invitation to all list members - PLEASE POST something on 
> this list, i.e. use this list. Post for instance questions (on software,
> 
> on data, on whatever) or news that might be interesting to 2-3 more 
> people. Because we should use and establish this email list as a 
> resource pool for our work.
> 
> cheers from the UofC
> stefan
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